Nevada County picayune., 1887-04-06
AGRICULTURAL.
Stick 10 the Farm.

gives this sensible advice to the young farmers of the South:
 We are aware that spirit of un- rest $ abroad among the young farmers of the South. For some wears their labors have been hard and their profits small and slow to accumulate. Many ol them fancy that a surer, shorter, less lnhorl' ous road to competence may be found in the profes ssions, i'll trade, or in other kinds of labor. In this thcN are mistaken. The depres- sion is wldespread--wide as the civilized world; it permeates every ayocation, every rank of society. The professions are overcrowdcd. Here and there is a professional man who acquires competence ana fame; but for every one of these there are scores who eke out a :reager subsistence, very many of them not knowing how they are to pay their beard or house rent at the end of the month, nor their procer's and butchers bills at the end of the week. One reads and hears of the successful oncs. but not ol the others; just as one reads of the few who draw the big lot terv prizes among the news items of the public prints. but the names of the thousands who draw the blanks never,
 And in the mercantile business few farm CTS can form a c0ncep- ton of the physical and mental la Dor the merchants and his clerks and other employees must undergo. For Inc former. days of toll and sleepless nights ofanxious thought! For the latter. days of unremitting slavisi work, with uneasy doubts as to what the future, with the vii cissitudes of trade, may bring. Homeless and without means of employment! Can our young farm CT friends fancy the full meaning of these words? And how many merchants succeed in their busl- nesss We have seen it stated, by good authority, that not more than five out of d hundred retire from business with a competence. The other ninetyfve see their capital slowly melt to nothingness, or It Is swept away at one full sweep that brings bankruptcy and ruin to the merchant and loss of position to his employees.
 And what of the other forms of labor in which millions are en- gagged? What of the great army of wage -workers-is peace, plenty and contentment found in their ranks! Is there no unrest there! What of the priyati0ns they and their families have endured for years9 And remember that most of them are without homes of their own. What of the eXactions of which they complain (whether justly or unjustly we shall not stop to inqnire)! Consider the strikes and lockouts of the pres ent decade, the thousands thrown out of employment. the days, weeks, months and years of en- forced idleness. And remember that every strike and lockout is d sharp two.edged sword that cuts both ways. Employers and em- ployes alike suffer.
 Let the young farmer compare lots with all these the prOtes- sional men, the merchants and their employees, the wage-workers and their employers. His home stead is his own, safe to him and his beyond peradventure. It is his capital, that cannot pass rom him by slow degrees nor lost by one calamitous stroke. For him there are nn strikes nor lockouts; he may always find employment. He has always roof 10 shelter him and his, and food and raiment for both. For every farmer can make. with reasonable care and industry, supply of everything he and his family need for food, except sugar and coffee. After home supplies for man and beast, which every farmer can and should make, there comes his money crop.
 The Baltimore Manufacturers Report publishes elaborate statis- ties showing that the decline since